Author: Theodore A. Rees Cheney
Publisher: Ten Speed Pre
Keywords: nonfiction, crafting, techniques, fiction, writing, creative
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-12-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1580082297
ISBN-13: 9781580082297

WRITING CREATIVE NON-FICTION outlines the tried-and-tested techniques that successful writers use to craft brilliant essays, articles and book-length works, making the tools of the trade accessible to those of us who have always dreamed of making our mark in publishing. Learn how to write gripping opening sentences, and use dialogue and even overheard conversations to bring characters to life on the page. Learn how you too can become a cultural critic, biographer or esteemed essayist.

Authors:Joline Godfrey,  Kit Hinrich,
Publisher: Ten Speed Pre
Keywords: kids, financially, raising
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-12-05
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1580085369
ISBN-13: 9781580085366

As a parent, you worry about instilling good financial values in your children?no matter what your income level. But when and how is it appropriate to start teaching your kids about the almighty dollar? Joline Godfrey, founder and CEO of Independent Means, Inc.?the leading provider of financial programs for kids and their parents?has the answers. In RAISING FINANCIALLY FIT KIDS, Godfrey aims her friendly, approachable, and practical text at parents and grandparents of children ages 5 to 18. At the heart of the book is a developmental map covering 10 specific money skills children can master by

Authors:Andrea Richards,  Elizabeth Mccallie, Allison
Publisher: Ten Speed Pre
Keywords: broke, film, video, maker, flat, time, director, guide, first, girl
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1580086756
ISBN-13: 9781580086752

Chock-full of fascinating photographs and colorful directives, GIRL DIRECTOR is an instruction manual, history lesson, scrapbook, and celebration of women and film rolled into one. Director and cinephile Andrea Richards all but hands the reader a camera as she raucously paves the way for young women to make their own films. Sharing tales of the coolest femme filmmakers from history and recounting advice from the best women directors now in the business, Richards explains step by step how anyone can make a film using a standard video camera. Covering such topics as screenwriting, storyboards, s

Author: David Arora
Publisher: Ten Speed Pre
Keywords: demystified, mushrooms
Number of Pages: 976
Published: 1986-10-01
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0898151694
ISBN-13: 9780898151695

This is the be-all and end-all of mushroom books! Truly an encyclopedia of mushroom facts and lore, lavishly illustrated with full-color photographs, literally everything you need to know about mushrooms, edible or not. Arora has taught mycology for close to twenty years and has hunted and photographed mushrooms across the North American continent. Threaded through the book are his wry and humorous observations and comments, making what could have been a rather dull, "just-the-facts, ma’am" reference book into a really enjoyable read. The stunning photographs of the incredible variety of

Authors:Loren Nancarrow, Janet Hogan Taylor,
Publisher: Ten Speed Pre
Keywords: control, home, garden, pest, natural, snails, leave, trails, dead
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1996-07-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0898158524
ISBN-13: 9780898158526

No, this isn’t a slimy murder mystery! Here’s a guide to natural pest control in your home and garden (and even on your pets). It offers simple techniques to help you avoid the use of toxic pesticides and chemicals around the house, and is a welcome alternative to the old "Kills Them Dead" mentality of poison sprays and powders common in the past (which is where they should be--the past). Here’s the guide you’ve been waiting for!This comprehensive guide to controlling pests in the home and garden is packed with simple and effective tips on how to avoid chemical pesticid

Author: Yana Parker
Publisher: Ten Speed Pre
Keywords: examples, damn, catalogue, resume
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1996-10-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0898158915
ISBN-13: 9780898158915

With over 180,000 copies in print, this is the resume resource for job seekers by Yana Parker, widely known and loved author of the best selling DAMN GOOD RESUME GUIDE (over 500,000 copies in print). Sample resumes-ready to be adapted and/or used for inspiration-cover all levels of experience and an extraordinarily wide range of careers, from the specific (biofeedback specialist, gas chromatography) to the general (fast-food cashier, masseur). Thoroughly indexed and cross-referenced, this is an easily used, dependable resource for anyone who needs to get that resume to the top of the pile and

Author: Oscar Londo
Publisher: Ten Speed Pre
Keywords: essays, doctor, tricks, uplifting, medicine, viagra, magic, voodoo
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1580082874
ISBN-13: 9781580082877

The doctor who dispensed the invaluable advice KILL AS FEW PATIENTS AS POSSIBLE is at it again with a collection of waggish musings on everything from Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut to voodoo, ballerinas, and Krispy Kreme doughnuts. Dr. Oscar London’s FROM VOODOO TO VIAGRA pokes fun at the serious and sometimes outrageous world of medicine, from the ability of doctors to work in the face of disagreeable smells, to the surgeon who uses a scalpel to excise fat from the "B" in his BLT. No one in the medical community is safe from Dr. London’s fine-tuned wit. Whether you’